Beaded edged article and method



Dec. 28, 1937. w. MYERS BEADED EDGED ARTICLE AND METHOD Filed Dec. 21, 1935 IIIIIIIIIIII FAQ-7211111 mJW/zll 3mm Ualer JI yers attmw) Patented Dec. 28, 1937 umrso STATES PATNT OFFICE Singer Manufacturing Company,

Elizabeth, v

N. 3., a corporation of New Jersey Application December 21, 1935, Serial No. 55,538

8 Claims.

which:

Fig. 1 represents, in top plan, a body material provided with an openwork or hemstitch seam. Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the method of doubling and securing a hemstitched body- 0 material about a bead-chain disposed along the line of the hemstitch seam. Fig. 3 represents a cross-section of ,the finished article. Fig. 4 represents a perspective view, partly in section of an article having a bead-chain edge finish. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, but with the beads carried by a string.

According to the present method of providing an ornamental edge-finish for articles, a body or sheet material I, which may be in the form of a narrow strip, is, initially provided lengthwise thereof with an openwork or hemstitch seam, preferably comprising a row of substantially parallel cross-bars 2 with a series of intervening apertures 3 formed in said body material. The apertures 3 are preferably held open by two rows of stitches, each row consisting of a repetition of cross-bar tying stitches 4 connected by a pair of lateral stitches 5 anchored in the body material adjacent the apertures 3. The tying stitches 4 of the two rows of stitches closely embrace the crossbars 2 at the opposite ends thereof, thereby bunching the material comprising said cross-bars and holding the apertures 3 open lengthwise of the seam. The opposed lateral stitches 5 of the two rows of stitches act transversely of the seam line to hold the apertures 3 open.

The openwork seam described may be produced by any suitable two-needle hemstitching machine and is commercially well known, but it is to be understood that in its broader aspects the present invention is not limited to any specific arrangement of stitches for holding the apertures 3 open, as said apertures might be otherwise held open.

The strip of body material I is doubled widthwise on a line to form a fold-edge medianly of the length of the cross-bars 2, whereby said foldedge is constituted by spaced loops 2 formed by the doubled crossbars 2. Preparatory to or in the operation of doubling said body material l as above described, a bead string is positioned along the openwork seam so that, when doubled, the body material cross-bar loops 2' embrace the bead-string between the beads thereof. This bead-string is preferably in the form of a beadchain comprising a series of beads 6 extensibly connected by a series of links I, as illustrated more particularly in Fig. 4. However, as illustrated in Fig. 5, the bead-string may comprise a series of beads 8 loosely strung upon a cord or wire 9.

As the plies of the folded body-material are brought into contact with each other, the beads 6, or 8, are caused to protrude through the bodymaterial apertures 3, the loops 2' embracing the links I, or the cord 9, and thereby serving to securely hold the bead-string with the beads thereof exposed. The superposed plies of the doubled body material are then secured together and preferably by a line of stitches l0 disposed so as to retain the beads protruding from the fold-edge. The free edges of the plies are also preferably secured together by a second line of stitches H, the lines of stitches l0 and II preferably extending substantially parallel to the fold-edge.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the folding of the body material, the insertion of the bead-string and the stitching of the doubled plies may be readily performed in one operation by employment of a two-needle sewing machine provided with a suitable folded and a bead-string guide. The cross-bar loops 2' comprise a very substantial securing medium for the bead-string and this, coupled with the tying of the apertures 3, .results in a superior article of manufacture.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention, what I claim herein is:-

1. The method of producing an article of manufacture having an ornamental edge-finish, comprising, providing in a body material a row of spaced apart bars of the body material with intervening apertures, doubling said body material about a bead-string disposed along the line of said apertures, causing successive beads of said bead-string to protrude through successive apertures of said body material, and securing the overlying plies of the doubled body material adjacent to the fold-edge thereof.

bead-string 2. The method of producing an article of manufacture having an ornamental edge-finish, comprising, providing in a body material a row of spaced apart bars of the body material with intervening apertures tied open by stitches, doubling said body material about a bead-string dis-' posed along the line of said apertures, causing successive beads of said bead-string to protrude through successive apertures of said body material, and securing the doubled body material by a line of stitches adjacent and substantially parallel to the fold-edge thereof. 7

3. The method of producing an article of manufacture having an ornamental edge-finish, comprising, providing in a body material a row of spaced apart bars of the body material with intervening apertures, tying opposite ends of said bars by stitches, doubling said body material about a bead-string disposed along the line of said apertures, causing successive beads of said to protrude through successive apertures of said body material, and securing the doubled body material by a line of stitches adjacent and substantially parallel to the foldedge thereof.

4. The method of producing an article of manufacture having an ornamental, edge-finish, comprising, providing in a body material a stitched openwork seam consisting of a row'of spaced body-material bars embraced by stitches connected by intermediate stitches anchored in said body material, doubling said body material about a bead-string extending along said bars, causing the beads of said bead-string to protrude between said bars beyond the fold-edge of the doubled body material, and securing the deubled body-material adjacent the fold-edge thereof.

5. An article of manufacture, comprising a doubled sheet material provided along the fold- ,edge thereof with a series of spaced loops of the sheet material and intervening apertures in said sheet material, tying means for said apertures, and a bead-string anchored by said loops within said fold-edge with the beads of said bead-string protruding through said apertures.

6. An article of manufacture, comprising a strip of Woven sheet material secured in doubled relation adjacent the fold-edge thereof and provided along said fold-edge with a series of spaced loops of the sheet material and intervening apertures in said sheet material, and an extensible bead-string anchored by said loops within said fold-edge with successive beads of said beadstring protruding through successive apertures of said sheet material.

7. An article of manufacture, comprising a doubled sheet material provided along the foldedge thereof with a series of spacedloops of the sheet material and intervening apertures, stitches tying said apertures open, a line of stitches securing said doubled sheet material adjacent to the fold-edge thereof, and a bead-string anchored by said loops within said fold-edge with the beads of said bead-string protruding through said apertures.

8. An article of manufacture, comprising a doubled material provided along the fold-edge thereof with a row of spaced apart loops of the sheet material, stitches tying opposite ends of said loops, a fold-edge finishing bead-chain having the beads thereof disposed outside of the sheet material fold-edge and the bead-connecting links of said bead-chain loosely embraced by saidloops of sheet material, and means securing together the overlying plies of the doubled sheet material.

WALTER MYERS. 

